The 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L Feringa for the design and synthesis of molecular machines, touted to herald a second industrial revolution. Just as the constant miniaturization of the transistor over recent decades has led to mobile phones and other pocket-sized devices with functionality beyond even the most optimistic imaginations 60 years ago, the miniaturization of machines may lead to similarly unforecast yet ubiquitous applications in the future……..
http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/66530
